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Incumbents

Crown

Monarch – Edward VII^[1]

Federal government

Governor General – Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey
Prime Minister – Wilfrid Laurier
Chief Justice – Charles Fitzpatrick (Quebec)
Parliament – 10th

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – George Hedley Vicars Bulyea
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – James Dunsmuir
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Daniel Hunter McMillan
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Jabez Bunting Snowball (until February 24) then Lemuel John Tweedie (from March 6)
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Duncan Cameron Fraser
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – William Mortimer Clark
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Donald Alexander MacKinnon
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Louis-Amable Jetté
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan – Amédée Forget

Premiers

Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride
Premier of Manitoba – Rodmond Roblin
Premier of New Brunswick – Lemuel John Tweedie (until March 6) then William Pugsley (March 6 to May 31) then Clifford William Robinson
Premier of Nova Scotia – George Henry Murray
Premier of Ontario – James Whitney
Premier of Prince Edward Island – Arthur Peters
Premier of Quebec – Lomer Gouin
Premier of Saskatchewan – Thomas Walter Scott

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Commissioner of Yukon – John T. Lithgow (acting) (until June 17) then Alexander Henderson
Gold Commissioner of Yukon – F.X. Gosselin (from June 17)
Commissioner of Northwest Territories – Frederick D. White

Events

March 6 – William Pugsley becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing Lemuel John Tweedie
May 24 – Boer War Memorial (Montreal) unveiled
May 30 – King Edward VII grants the Coat of Arms of Alberta
May 31 – Clifford Robinson becomes premier of New Brunswick, replacing William Pugsley
August 24 – Part of the under-construction Quebec Bridge collapses in Quebec City killing 75 construction workers and injuring 11.
September 7
- An anti-Asian riot in Vancouver attacks Chinatown
- Alexander Grant MacKay is elected leader of the Ontario Liberal Party
September 14 – Jasper Forest Park – later named Jasper National Park – is established.^[2]

Full date unknown

The National Council for Women demands "equal pay for equal work"
The world's first rotary telephone came into use at Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia
The first Sobeys opens in Stellarton, Nova Scotia

Births

January to June

January 14 – Georges-Émile Lapalme, politician (d.1985)
January 26 – Hans Selye, endocrinologist (d.1982)^[3]
February 9 – Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, geometer (d.2003)
March 20 – Hugh MacLennan, author and professor of English (d.1990)
March 24 – Paul Sauvé, lawyer, soldier, politician and 17th Premier of Quebec (d.1960)
April 16 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, inventor, businessman and founder of Bombardier Inc. (d.1964)
April 17 – Louis-Philippe-Antoine Bélanger, politician (d.1989)

July to December

July 6 – George Stanley, historian, author, soldier, teacher, public servant and designer of the current Canadian flag (d.2002)
August 5 – Herman Linder, rodeoist
August 24 – Alfred Belzile, politician and farmer
September 3 – Andrew Brewin, lawyer and politician (d.1983)

September 15 – Fay Wray, actress (d.2004)
October 20 – Carl Goldenberg, lawyer, arbitrator, mediator and Senator (d.1996)
November 19 – Frederick Thomas Armstrong, politician (d.1990)
November 21 – Christie Harris, children's author (d.2002)
December 12 – Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé, pianist, soprano and teacher (d.2007)^[4]

Unknown

Edythe Shuttleworth, mezzo-soprano (d.1983)^[5]

Deaths

January to June

January 1 – William Pearce Howland, politician (b.1811)
January 25 – Andrew George Blair, politician and 6th Premier of New Brunswick (b.1844)
January 31 – Timothy Eaton, businessman and founder of Eaton's (b.1834)
March 3 – Oronhyatekha, Mohawk physician and scholar (b.1841)
March 8 – Edward Cochrane, politician (b.1834)
March 20 – Louis Adolphe Billy, politician and lawyer (b.1834)
April 6 – William Henry Drummond, poet (b.1854)
June 12 – John Waldie, politician (b.1833)

July to December

August 10 – James Brien, politician and physician (b.1848)
September 26 – Alexander Gunn, politician (b.1828)
October 10 – Cassie Chadwick, fraudster (b.1857)^[6]
October 13 – Harvey William Burk, politician and farmer (b.1822)

Historical documents

Report that staff "minimize the dangers of infection" in "the defective sanitary condition" of many residential schools in Prairie Provinces^[7]

Newspaper covers "not too favorable a report" issued by Dr. Peter Bryce, concluding "vigorous action cannot be long delayed"^[8]

Missing residential school boys are forced to run back with arms tied, and church committee advises against that to avoid cruelty complaints^[9]

Fallout from September 7 riot against Asian Canadians in Vancouver^[10]

Opposition Leader Robert Borden's Vancouver speech on restricting East Asian immigration^[11]

Mackenzie King believes workers running cooperative will learn capitalists' risks and responsibilities, thus reducing labour strife^[12]

Rudyard Kipling speaks on spirit of development in Winnipeg^[13]

Photo and text: Winnipeg Beach, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba^[14]

Speech on U.S. influence on Canadian thought, habits, literature and press^[15]

Local Saskatchewan debate on women's suffrage results in negative decision^[16]

Western boards of trade resolutions call for state-supported hospitals^[17]

Mayor of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan advocates transportation route to Hudson Bay^[18]

Stinkers, mortal terror, and common enemy: automobile issues in Nova Scotia^[19]

McGill University principal on place of classical studies in modern education^[20]

Article on inner workings of Marconi wireless telegraph station^[21]

Minister and three other rowers survive ice and huge waves in Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland^[22]

References

^ Tidridge, Nathan (15 November 2011). Canada's Constitutional Monarchy. Dundurn. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-55488-980-8.
^ "Jasper National Park Is The Most Beautiful Place In Canada". All That's Interesting. 5 January 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ "Dr Hans Selye". home.cc.umanitoba.ca. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ "Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé". The Canadian Encyclopedia. April 25, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
^ "Edythe Shuttleworth". The Canadian Encyclopedia. October 25, 2009. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
^ "CHADWICK, CASSIE L." case.edu. 11 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
^ Peter H. Bryce, "The Health of the Pupils of the Industrial and Boarding Schools" Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the North-West Territories (1907), pgs. 17-21 plus tables. Accessed 4 February 2020
^ "Indian Schools Deal Out Death" The (Victoria, B.C.) Daily Colonist, Vol. XCVII, No. 137 (November 16, 1907), pg. 1. Accessed 29 September 2021
^ "Report of Committee appointed to enquire into the complaints made by the Indian Department against the Crowstand Indian School" (August 8, 1907), in Denise Hildebrand, Staff Perspectives of the Aboriginal Residential School Experience: A Study of Four Presbyterian Schools, 1888-1923 pg. 243. Accessed 10 June 2021
^ "Vancouver's Agitation for Exclusion of Asiatics" Victoria Daily Colonist (September 13, 1907). Accessed 4 February 2020
^ "Speech (in Part) Delivered by Mr. R.L. Borden at Vancouver, 24th September 1907" The Question of Oriental Immigration; Speeches (in Part) Delivered by R.L. Borden, M.P.; In 1907 and 1908, pgs. 3-9. Accessed 5 February 2020
^ "Minutes of Evidence" (March 12, 1907), Reports of the Special Committee of the House of Commons [on] Industrial and Co-Operative Societies, pgs. 79-80. Accessed 9 October 2020
^ "Address by Rudyard Kipling to the Canadian Club; Winnipeg; 2nd October, 1907" Accessed 5 February 2020
^ "A Day with a Camera at Winnipeg Beach" and "Situated on Lake Winnipeg" (1907), British Library. Accessed 23 December 2021
^ J. Castell Hopkins, "Continental Influences in Canadian Development" (February 28, 1907), The Empire Club of Canada Addresses, pgs. 228-43. Accessed 5 February 2020
^ "No Votes For The Women; Such Was The Burden Of Argument In Nutana-Floral Debate" Saskatoon Phoenix (February 11, 1907), pg. 2. Accessed 5 February 2020
^ Associated Boards of Trade of Western Canada, Memorandum of Resolutions to Be Presented at the Fourth Annual Convention[....] (1907), pgs. 26-7, 58-60. Accessed 5 February 2020 http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3018/30.html http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/3018/62.html
^ Associated Boards of Trade of Western Canada, Memorandum of Resolutions to Be Presented at the Fourth Annual Convention.... (1907), pg. 7. Accessed 5 February 2020
^ Excerpts from New Glasgow Eastern Chronicle (various dates, 1907). Accessed 5 February 2020 http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/300/nova_scotias_electronic_attic/07-04-09/www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625/automobiles.html (scroll down to 1907)
^ W. Peterson, "The Claims of Classical Studies in Modern Education" Canadian Essays and Addresses (1915), pgs. 287-303. Accessed 5 February 2020
^ "Interior Description of the Operator's Room at Marconi Wireless Station, Morien," Sydney (N.S.) Daily Post (October 16, 1907). Accessed 5 February 2020 "Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph, 16 Oct 1907". Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
^ Diaries of Reverend Robert Samuel Smith (Part 2). Accessed 5 February 2020 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cannf/nd_diary2.htm (scroll down to "JUNE 6")

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Incumbents

Crown

Federal government

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors

Premiers

Territorial governments

Commissioners

Events

Full date unknown

Births

January to June

July to December

Unknown

Deaths

January to June

July to December

Historical documents

References